Journey Back to Grace: 4 Songs of Love and Loss

Dear Guaguer@s,

In Journey Back to Grace: Songs of Love and Loss, I invite you on a raw, vulnerable, personal journey. It’s a journey through stages of grief at the loss of my life commitment. It’s a journey back to hope. Journey Back to Grace gives you an idea of what Marcos and la Guagua songs are at their heart: active dialectics of the voice and the drum, of feeling and thought, the personal and the universal. La Guagua invites you to dance. La Guagua seeks to uplift us. La Guagua means to move you. The journey was performed and recorded with help from Ardashir Ethan Lea, in the gracious, acoustically gorgeous sanctuary of TLC of NYC.

Hmmn… OO… Hashtag keep the Faith Fail. Mis padres, abuelos and now my Divorce. No fault keep it out the courts. But, why do we join, construct, define, Is it just the build up for inevitable decline?

So a man shall leave his mother, A woman leave her home, So what?! So they go to the county, the church, throw a party, then die alone? She was beautiful, haunted, divine. But I couldn’t save her, beautiful savior. Was she ever really mine.

Hmmn… OO… Now and Forever Now? Now what?! Forever? Forever’s what I thought,

Hmmn… OO… Now and Forever Now? Now what?! Forever? Forever’s what I thought,

My parents were waiting before they got divorced. Long suffering, There were no unforced errors, The game was over Then the war came Then the news dropped And we’d never be the same, Family failed No money, matrimony unsuccessful Was there anything to life besides more or less stressful Now and forever will I ever find mine Jesus lover of my soul I think I’m running out of time!